A collection of essays on European historiography, focussing on the overlapping national histories in Europe presenting many of the contested areas through conflicting historiographies. Sponsored by the European Science Foundation, this unique volume is part of Writing the Nation, a major international project.

JACOB BARNAI Professor, Departments of Jewish History and of Israel Studies, University of Haifa, Israel RAGNAR BJÖRK Associate Professor, Södertörn University, Sweden CIARAN BRADY Fellow, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of History, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland CHRISTOPHER FISCHER Assistant Professor of History, Indiana State University, USA JÖRG HACKMANN DAAD Alfred-Döblin-Professor of East European History, University of Szczecin, Poland ILKKA LIIKANEN Professor of Border and Russian Studies, Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland ANDREW LUDANYI Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio, USA XOSÉMANOEL NÚÑEZ Professor of Modern History, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain ROBIN OKEY Emeritus Professor, University of Warwick, UK UFFE ØSTERGÅRD Professor of European and Danish History, International Centre for Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Demark MILAN ?EPA Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic NIEK VAN SAS Professor of Modern History, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands RAFAL STOBIECKI Professor, Chair of the History of Historiography, Lodz University, Lodz, Poland WERNER SUPPANZ Assistant Professor, Institute of History Contemporary History, University of Graz, Austria